JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he and Elon Musk “hugged it out” and put aside nearly a decade of tense interactions thanks to a conversation the pair had at a conference last year.

Jamie Dimon’s praise for Musk was effusive. “The guy is our Einstein,” he remarked, emphasising Musk’s contributions through companies like Tesla and SpaceX. He added, “I’d like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can.

"Elon and I hugged it out," Dimon told CNBC in a TV interview at the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos, Switzerland. "He came to one of our conferences, [and] he and I had a nice, long chat. We settled some of our differences."